If you want to know about where Miers stands on issues...

[Reciprocity]

You need to interview her Sunday school class she taught in Dallas. CNN reported that she was a long time member of a non-denominational church in Dallas. Where she taught an evening Sunday school class for years. She no longer teaches there as she moved to DC but still visits them from time to time. It would be interesting to know what her former students think about her and her nomination.

[rodeodance]

1. a good investigative reporter could mine lots of infor from friends/famil

[Straight Shooter]

4. Not if bushco runs interference and tells everyone to shut their mouth.

They've certainly done it before ...

[thereismore]

2. non-denominational churches can be VERY fundie, "Old Testament" churches

[Reciprocity]

3. I just think this would be an interesting take on he views.

A small group of people that you spend time with may have a better idea of where she stands on issues that her paper trail.

[Czolgosz]

5. "Old Testament" churches? You mean she's Jewish?

[newswolf56]

6. The best window into Miers' ideology is her tenure on the...

Dallas City Council. Look at her voting record, her associations, who endorsed her (and who opposed her), who contributed to her campaigns. Her church probably has a website and that too is a major indication: if she's a Fundamentalist (bad enough) or far worse a Dominionist (an advocate of theocracy), that will be obvious too. Also she must have made some enemies while she was on the Lottery Commission -- you can't be effective in that kind of job and not make enemies (especially in an autocracy like Texas) -- and these people are invariably sources of damning information. It's the old standard investigative reporter's approach: find out who got paid and who got betrayed -- you've got your story.

Because I'm not in head-in-the-sand denial like so many of my fellow Democrats, I don't regard Bush as a "bungler" and a "moron": I think he is the most cunningly dangerous tyrant in U.S. history -- and I think the appointment of Miers is merely another expression of his tyrannic schemes and intentions. My suspicion is that she has a specific, clandestine, already-scripted purpose on the court: worst-case scenario, a vote (with Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Kennedy) to uphold a Bush decree suspending the 2006 or 2008 elections, much as the court facilitated the coup of 2000. While an investigation of Miers' city council and Lottery Commission backgrounds probably would not unearth any specific indication of how she might vote on such an issue, it might indeed expose scandal of a magnitude sufficient to compromise her judicial independence: a profoundly important point.

As to the Democrats curious acquiescence to Bush's appointees, I think it is simple fear rather than incompetence. These Democrats see what's coming, and (with but a few defiantly radical exceptions), they will make whatever compromises are necessary to stay out of the camps.